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Evans, Robert was born on June 29, 1930 in New York City.
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Evans, Robert was born on June 29, 1930 in New York City.
After seven years in charge of production at Paramount (1967-73), he moved into the independence he reckoned he deserved. His first venture w'as Chinatown (74, Roman Polanski), a producer’s coup in terms of holding together warring elements long enough for high rentals and good reviews.
After that, the magic touch deserted him and left two box-office toads: Marathon Man (76, John Sehlesinger) and Blaek Sunday (77, John Frankenheimer). They were no worse nor more foolish than pictures that had flourished a few years before. But producers live by the invisible and scarcely predictable rule of what the public will swallow. All the hard work, faith, and ruthlessness his survivors attribute to a producer are empty air if his horse medicine does not sell.
Selling sneakers and jock straps taught him trade and made him wealthy. Then, in 1956, in Beverly Hills he met Norma Shearer, and she was so taken with him that she got him the cameo part of her husband, Irving Thalberg, in Man of a Thousand Faces (57, Joseph Pevney). He was pretty, but not an actor. Still, he had several other parts: the matador in The Sun Also Rises (57, Henry King); the odious killer in The Fiend Who Walked the West (58, Gordon Douglas); and The Best of Everything (59, Jean Negulesco).
He never made it as a star, and he went back to peddling sportswear. When the company sold out to Revlon, Evans’s cut left him a millionaire. He then went back to Hollywood with the wish to produce and the means to buy in. Fox took him on and he set up one picture there—The Detective (68, Douglas)—before accepting Paramount’s invitation.
It speaks for Evans’s glamour and the shortage of distinguished production executives that Paramount gave him power with so little track record. His time at Paramount started uncertainly, but he soon reached a plateau of success that helped to revitalize the company. The Godfather may look cast-iron now, but it was hedged with early doubts, against which Evans gave the director’s job to the still problematic Coppola. Other films he produced include: The Molly Maguires (68, Martin Ritt); Rosemary’s Baby (68, Polanski); Romeo and Juliet (68, Franco Zeffirelli); Paint Your Wagon (69, Joshua Logan); Goodbye, Columbus (69, Larry Pierce); Darling Lily (70, Blake Edwards); Catch-22 (70, Mike Nichols); and Love Story (70, Arthur Hiller). This last and Goodbye, Columbus had starred Ali MacGraw, Evans’s third wife (others have been Sharon Huegeny, Camilla Spary, and Phyllis George).
Love Story was a major hit, unexpected to all the people who doubted a cynical, permissive society’s readiness for sappy romance. Evans guessed that hidden softness and also backed the far greater harshness ol The Godfather. Such versatility promised that he would be back with other things we could not resist.
After Marathon Man and Black Sunday Evans has had disaster, under the influence of drugs and also under suspicion in various scandals as well as being linked to one notable murder case. He was a producer on Players (79, Anthony Harvey), Popeye (80, Hubert Altman), and The Cotton Club (84, Coppola), and his own disarray cannot have helped that disappointing picture. He was intended not just as producer on The Two fakes, but as the actor playing Jake Berman. His insecurities stopped Robert Townes first attempt to film his script in 1985, and Evans was a producer in name only when the film was finally done, in 1990, under Jack Nicholsons direction.
Of course, that was said before Evans took producer's credit and backed one old pal against another on The Two Jakes (90, Jack Nicholson). Since then, Evans has had his name attached to a few more films—Sliver (93, Phillip Noyce); Jade (95, William Friedkin); The Phantom (96, Simon Wincer); The Saint (97, Noyce); The Out-of- Towners (99, Sam Weisman). That all have been bad is just a signal of Evans’s general relaxation— which is good for him. As is amply borne out in his all-too-short memoir, The Kid Stays in the Picture.
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Actor: (films) Lydia Bailey, 1952, The Man of a Thousand Faces, 1957, The Sun Also Rises, 1957, The Fiend Who Walked the West, 1958, The Best of Everything, 1959. Appeared in: (television series) Just Shoot Me!, 2000, 7th Heaven, 2003. Appeared in, narrator: (documentaries) The Kid Stays in the Picture, 2002.Producer: (films) Chinatown, 1974, Marathon Man, 1976, Black Sunday, 1977, Players, 1979, Popeye, 1980, Urban Cowboy, 1980, The Cotton Club, 1984, The Two Jakes, 1989, Sliver, 1993, Jade, 1993, The Phantom, 1996, The Saint, 1997, The Out-of-Towners, 1999, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, 2003. Voice, executive producer: (television series) Kid Notorious, 2003. Author: (memoirs) The Kid Stays in the Picture, 1994.
For a moment, Evans was bathed in the media wash of being the perfect new producer. His smile had the unshy self-love of a man seeing his own dazzle in the mirror.
Evans has charm and no fear of exhausting schedules: four marriages and four divorces have not deterred him from the company of pretty women, and he has the boyish love of pictures still that has guarded all long-lived producers.
He has a youthful face, as if being starstruck came out in his ardent expression. As a child in New York, he worked as a radio actor by night. The strain caught up with him: a lung collapsed, leaving the febrile intensity of a restored invalid. He convalesced for a year and then bounced back to be sales director of a sportswear firm his brother had helped found.
So Evans is a very notable casualty. But in all his stages of chaos and distress, he has remained a would-be actor, putting on a grand show. For example, as late as 1982, Robert Towne wrote of him: “Bob Evans remains, in memory and in life, a standard for everv land of human generosity, and one I have yet to see matched in tins town.”
Son of Archie & Florence (Evans) Shapera. Married Sharon Hugueny, May 28, 1961 (divorced July 21, 1962). Married Camilla Sparv, 1963 (divorced 1965).
Married Ali MacGraw, October 24, 1969 (divorced 1972). 1 child, Joshua; Married Phyllis George, April 14, 1977 (divorced July 22, 1978). Married Catherine Oxenberg, July 12, 1998 (divorced July 21, 1998).
Married Leslie An Woodward, December 12, 2002 (divorced July 22, 2004). Married Lady Ann White, August 6, 2005 (divorced).